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Wouldn't DOGE savings estimates be slashed every time some activist judge intervenes and forces the rampant corrupt spending to continue?

socal2 says

What Elon has already accomplished in rocketry with SpaceX alone is sufficient to give him wide latitude to be an independent set of eyes with DOGE IMO.

Never had an issue with Musk. But if his task was to cut, I'd expect at least $500B to $1T in the first year. It's on Trump as well. More money is wasted on states where Senators are the decision maker and not the House Rep. Dick Durbin or Tammy Duckworth don't have a clue what is going on in my town, let alone Trump.

Problem is 60-70% of people don't even know their house rep. So they're free to money approved for shit that doesn't matter and help buddies out. Congress is broken and so is the intelligence of American citizens.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/forked-redux-wednesday-april-16-2025

They’re forked again! Yesterday, Bloomberg ran an encouraging story headlined, “Federal Workers Jump at Buyout Offers They Once Shunned.” DOGE sent a second buyout offer to federal employees, coloquially called “Fork in the Road Part 2,” and this time they seem to be listening. They should take the deal or quit complaining.

This time, Fork 2 is being stabbed from each agency, rather than as a centralized offer like Fork 1. Bloomberg reported that about 20,000 IRS employees —about 20% of the agency’s staff— accepted the forking offer. By comparison, only 3,700 of them took the first stab. The paper also reported that 3,700 prodded DOE workers took the new deal (double the 1,300 who jumped the first time), and 4,000 DOT workers have so far signed on (about 7% of the agency’s total).

It seems to be everywhere. Politico said the Pentagon’s entire “Digital Design Services” team is taking the deal (all 14 of them, but still).

Wow - it's been all of 3 months with nonstop judicial and bureaucratic obstacles (even death threats!) and DOGE hasn't managed to cut TRILLIONS from our Federal government yet?

Total losers - right?

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1913741904887370170

DOGE CLEARED IN NLRB WHISTLEBLOWER FIASCO — NOW THE ACCUSER’S IN THE HOT SEAT

Daniel J. Berulis claimed Elon’s DOGE team hacked into the NLRB — that’s the National Labor Relations Board — and funneled sensitive data to Russia.

One problem: they never had a login. Not even a password reset email.

Turns out Berulis filed a national security complaint based on a gut feeling, not evidence.

Now folks are asking the DOJ to investigate him — because making up a spy story isn’t a harmless mix-up.

Former Donald Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon says something isn’t passing the smell test with Elon Musk’s work at the Department of Government Efficiency.

“None of this makes sense,” Bannon told Ben Smith, the editor in chief of Semafor, during the World Economy Summit.

“We need to have a very specific accounting of what he found, as far as fraud goes and waste, and I mean details,” Bannon said.

Bannon also said he wants a letter of certification showing that no one has taken any data from the Trump administration or government, to which Semafor’s editor-in-chief Ben Smith asked, “Sounds like you don’t trust [Musk] not to take data?”

“Trust, but verify,” Bannon responded.

Meh! Where are the TRILLIONS they promised by now?!!

Bannon says Elon is a fraud!


https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1917005802017329563
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-treasury-unexpectedly-reports-sharp-drop-debt-borrowing-needs-rates-slilde

Trump Has Frozen Nearly A Half-Trillion Dollars ... So Far

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has so far withheld at least $436.87 billion of congressionally approved funding, the top Democrats on the U.S. Congress' appropriation committees said on Tuesday.

The frozen allotments span the federal government, according to the first estimate of the potential impoundments in the project led by Senator Patty Murray from Washington and Representative Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut.
Almost $42 billion was frozen or canceled for the State Department, including the frozen support for USAID, along with another $62 billion-plus in competitive grant funding for the Transportation Department, according to the estimate.

The Democrats also detailed $943 million frozen for the Head Start early-education program and more than $10 billion in frozen and canceled funding for the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

"Just 100 days into office, President Trump and Elon Musk are continuing their unprecedented assault on our nation's spending laws, and it is families, small businesses, and communities in every part of the country who are paying the price," Murray and DeLauro said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-withholding-43687-billion-in-approved-spending-top-democrats-say/ar-AA1DPiHD

socal2 says

DeLauro said

Patrick says

Must See Segment with Elon Musk and the DOGE kids

Terabytes of data deleted, Fraud evidence referred to DOJ, and it's just beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uhiwIFUoKQ&t=1s

~$175 billion to student loan forgiveness
+$50 billion a year to US AID and related programs
+$10 billion for mortgage assistance

I wish Trump would have a report card which would show how much of Birdbrain Biden aid is reduced or targeted for reduction

https://x.com/maggiewise111/status/1919547743032279529

AD says

I wish Trump would have a report card which would show how much of Birdbrain Biden aid is reduced or targeted for reduction

DOGE has a tracker on their website.

https://doge.gov/savings

Who could be against this?

https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1919766989314125854

socal2 says

Who could be against this?

People on the receiving end of the grift.